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- Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence A huge grid computing project on the Internet that takes advantage of unused processing time in users' computers to analyze radio telescope data. The...
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- Stargates and time travel
- Stargates and time travelAnother angle.Let's say for a moment that the wormhole thing isn't workable and that the speed of light really is a drop dead barrier to travel. So advanced civilizations could communicate but not visit. Now, let's further assume that they do in fact use electro-magnetic...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-18
- PS3 power requested for research project
- PS3 power requested for research projectWow, that makes the cost of the units seem more reasonablylending their processing power out for only 600 plus clams, that's a steal. Sony wii love you.GreatAs soon as the hardware gets cheap enough I might buy oneor two just for distributed computing....
- Discussion threads 2007-03-15
- Sun fuels cosmic research
- Sun fuels cosmic researchTechnological Value vs Stock ValueSUN who is admitedly not doing very well in the stock market is still one of the leaders in high-tech solutions. They have been putting together distributed systems that can provide better pettaflops / dollar than competitors. All the while the 'software giant'...
- Discussion threads 2003-12-17
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- BOINC 6.10.18 (Windows)
- BOINC is a program that lets you donate your idle computer time to science projects like SETI@home, Climateprediction.net, Rosetta@home, World Community Grid, and many others. After installing BOINC on your computer, you can connect it to as many of these projects as you like.
- Software downloads 2009-11-06
- Nvidia: Next big supercomputer player?
- NVidia has a chanceNot all that surprisingly the concept of supercomputing on a small basis has finally filtered down to audio/video recording facilities, with the bulk of basics going to the CPU and the actual processing going to the GPU. This is a clear advancement when those of us...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-01
- Hacker Gonzalez to plead guilty in TJX hack; A hollow victory?
- I'd be happier with an offensive against hackersWe need tools that attack hackers when detected. Just like how crime is reduced in cities where people are allowed to carry handguns, the masses need to be allowed to attack back. As long as everyone is allowed to only be...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-31
- 'EvoGrid' to model life's origins, and maybe answer the big questions
- EvoGrid is a grid-computing concept that'll attempt to digitally simulate the primordial soup from which life arose and it may shed light on the origins of life on Earth and in the universe. It may also provide new tools for evolutionary biology, biochemistry, and complexity studies. Studying...
- Blog posts 2009-07-04
- AMD Radeon HD 4770: Great graphics for $99
- AMD Radeon HD 4770: Great graphics for $99Crossfire that, and you've got great performance.If gamers would get two of 4770s instead of a 4890, they'll get a much better performance and that's a bargain!But I'd rather go with a 4750 and underclock to match the performance of a 4670 as...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-28
- Shutting down your PC: Frugal fact, or financial fiction?
- Shutting down your PC: Frugal fact, or financial fiction?Dave's is closerHowever 10 minutes and 5 minutes are a bit of an exaggeration unless you are using 5+ year old equipment. Which most workers do not. The actual number of minutes is probably half that, maybe less. However that still puts...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-13
- 2^43,112,609 -1: Distributed computing finds largest prime yet
- GIMPS â€" the distributed computing Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search â€" has found and confirmed the largest prime number ever: 243,112,609-1. It has 13 million digits and gives the GIMPS project a $100,000 award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Science News reports. Because 243,112,609-1 has...
- Blog posts 2008-09-28
- UK educator who called for teaching creationism should be fired
- UK educator who called for teaching creationism should be firedConsidering that.......most people consider themselves to be religious, why is it necessary for science classes to take an atheistic approach to presenting the subject? By doing so, you are not only alienating a good portion of your students, but you...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-14
- A virus in our genes, think about that....
- A virus in our genes, think about that....Not bad...You were doing good until about halfway through the post, when you might as well have pulled out your Barack Hussein Obama flag and waved it from the rooftops.Your gallop off into politics ruined what would otherwise have been a good read.RE:...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- LinuxWorld video: Merrill Lynch moves to stateless computing
- LinuxWorld video: Merrill Lynch moves to stateless computingThis guy has been drinking too much clould computing Kool AidPutting your fate in someone else's hands is simply not a good idea. You may get away with doing so once or twice, but eventually you will get bitten very badly. As for...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- SETIstat 1.0.0 (Mobile)
- SETIstat requires a properly configured network connection on your Palm. When the Refresh button is pressed, it opens a HTTP connection to the server at Berkeley and retrieves the HTML page that contains your stats. This page is accessible at the SETI@home User Account Area. The page is then parsed...
- Software downloads 2008-07-01
- Call for military to operate botnet
- Call for military to operate botnetI'd volunteer my PCs to help.If they did this above-board, with a SETI screen saver style app we could install deliberately, I'd bet they could have 50 million machines ready to help with this in a matter of weeks.RE: Call for military to operate botnetI'd...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- What a novel idea: Verizon cooperates with P2P file sharers
- What a novel idea: Verizon cooperates with P2P file sharersP2P: A perfectly 'good' technologyAnd Verizon is taking the right path to innovate and maintain Net Neutrality.Bad ComCast! Bad!The problem isn't traffic, it's parking.A lot of people have tried to compare P2P with cars in a traffic analogy. I think...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-14
- Grids need more medical applications
- In many ways grid computing remains a solution in search of a problem. After enormous hype early in this decade, spurred by success stories like the SETI@Home project, valuable commercial applications have proven few and far between. Much of the problem lies in set-ups....
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- Chip bugs can lead to major security disasters
- Chip bugs can lead to major security disastersChip bugsShamir suggests that it's impractical to test all cases of 64*64-bit multiplication. But given the lifespan of a chip design, and given that the test only needs to be run once, wouldn't it be practical to design a "grid" or "distributed" test,...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- Powering the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence SETI wanted to increase processing capabilities to keep up with rapid expansion of the SETI@home volunteer program, which constitutes the largest distributed supercomputer in the world and maximize real estate by putting more processing capability into the limited data center space used by SETI at...
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- Open source development is parallel processing in action
- About 20 years ago engineers around the world began demonstrating what is still the greatest computer innovation of my lifetime, parallel processing. (For more on the concept, visit this course at the Cornell Theory Center, offered by Saleh Elmohamed.) Until then people were limited to computers based...
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
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